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Extract from Minutes of the Proceedings of the Society of the Army 
of the Tennessee at Cincinnati, September IG and 17, 1895. 



The President: — I wish to call the attention of the Society 
to a matter that came to my attention in Washington. General 
Henderson gives me credit for doing much there. You all know 
ver}' well who did the work. It was he. I discovered, whilst 
there, that there had not been any arrangements or any movement 
for building a statue to General Grant, and in my efforts I imder- 
took, whilst we were building one to Sherman, to prepare a way 
for one to General Grant. I do not expect ever again to go out 
into the world to beg money for a statue for any soldier, for after 
one has had the experience that I have had in the last year, he 
will never try it over again. It is the duty of the Government 
to do this work, especially in Washington, and 1 was assured 
there that thev would be willing to take up this work, but they 
seemed to think that there must be some head, and that the proper 
head for the duty was the Army of the Tennessee. I want to 
suggest to this Society that they formulate some resolution, by 
which we can go before Congress, and go to our friends in Con- 
gress — for we have many, several of whom are members of this 
Society, and we have them on both sides of the house there and 
in the administration — and ask for this, and I believe we will 
receive it. They have a project in Washington of building a 
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Arlington, at the location of the old Aqueduct bridge, which is 
to be a very fine structure, and to place upon it a statue of Grant, 
or something of that character, calling it the Grant Memorial 
Bridge. I said to the committees that we were not particular 
what they built in Washington for Grant, only that they should 
build something, and they seemed to feel and appreciate that. It 
was the intention of the committee to place statues of Sherman 
and Grant in the two squares east of the Capitol. The Secretary 
of War recommended that. The committee decided upon it. 
But when we got before Congress, they held that Capitol grounds 
are sacred, and they do not allow any statues in it, and they put a 
provision there that v!e should put none in those two squares. 
Therefore we have to select other squares in Washington, but 
they are plentiful. I think we should move now upon Congress 
as a Society, and ask that either they make an appropriation 
for a memorial bridge, or for a statue, whichever is thought best. 
I leave it to the Society to suggest what shall be done. 

Captain Tuthill: — Mr. Chairman, the suggestion of the 
Chairman with regard to the monument to General Grant seems 
to me most pertinent and important, and it seems to me it should 
be acted upon at once. Therefore, as what is everybody's busi- 
ness is nobody's business, as the Chairman has suggested that the 
Society take some action to consider the matter, it seems to me it 
would be well to have the Chairman appoint a committee of say 
three to report a proper resolution, to inaugurate this movement. 
And I therefoie move that the Chair appoint a committee of three 
to prepare a suitable resolution to be introduced tomorrow morn- 
ing, at the business meeting; and I also move that the President 
of the Society be chairman of that committee. 

The motion prevailed. 

The Pre.sident: — I will name as that committee. Captain 
Tuthill, General Howard and Colonel Henderson. 



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The President: — VVe will now listen to the reports of Com- 
mittees. 

Captain Tuthili,: — I have a report that I will ask the Sec- 
retary to read. 

The Secretaiy read the report as follows: 

Your Committee appointed yesterday by the Society of the Army of the 
Tennessee to submit a resolution for the consideration of the Society in 
respect to the erection of a statue at Washington, D. C, to the memory 
of General U. S. Grant, respectfully recommend the following: 

Resolved, That it is the desire and judgment of this Society that tlie 
general Government should erect a suitable statue at Washington, D. C, 
to the memory- of General Grant, to commemorate his great service to his 
country as a soldier and commander, and the President of this Society shall 
designate a committee of nine to bring this matter to the attention of Con- 
gress, and the President of this Society shall be chairman of said committee. 

R. S. TUTHILL, 

D. B. Henderson, 
Oliver O. Howard, , 

Committee. 
On motion, the report was adopted. 

The President: — I will take time to designate this com- 
mittee, and endeavor to obtain one that will do ns the most 
gfood, and will announce the names hereafter. 




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New York, October KUh. ISOo. 
Colonel C. Cadle, 

Recording Secretary, 

Box 35, Cincinnati, O. 
Mv Dear Cadle : — I have made up a Conimittee for the 
Grant Memorial, as follows: 

G. M. Dodge, CliainnaJi. 
General O. O. Howard. 
Captain R. S. Tutiiill. 
Colonel W. F. Yilas, 
Colonel D. B. Henderson, 
Colonel \V. P. Hepburn, 
Captain J. A. T. Hull, 
Flonorable Hugh R. Belknap, 
General J. A. Williamson, 
General J. C. Breckinridge, 

Will vou please notify them and ask for an acknowledgement 

and acceptance, and as soon as you receive the same, advise me 

so that I can get the Committee together about the first of next 

January, when I go to Washington to look after the Sherman 

Statue matter. 

Yours truly. 

(Signed) G. M. Dodge. 



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